Job
In this role, you will develop open-source features, work on backend systems, and enhance developer documentation while closely interacting with the community to implement their ideas.
This listing has been machine translated. Show original
Job technologies
Your role in the team
- As an Open Source Engineer at NetBird, you'll focus on building and shipping features for the open-source community, especially homelabbers, self-hosters, and technical power users.
- This is a hands-on, builder role.
- You'll spend most of your time writing code, talking to the community and experimenting with features that make NetBird more useful, flexible, and fun to run in real-world setups.
- You will:
- Build and ship open-source features used by homelabbers and self-hosters.
- Work across the stack to improve self-hosting, local deployments and community-driven use cases.
- Pick up ideas directly from GitHub issues, discussions, and community feedback and turn them into working code.
- Improve developer experience, docs, examples and setup flows for OSS users.
- Review and collaborate on community pull requests as a peer, not a gatekeeper.
- Maintain and improve tooling around local dev, Docker, Kubernetes, and self-hosted environments.
- Experiment with new ideas, integrations, and workflows that make NetBird easier to hack on.
- Help keep NetBird approachable, hackable, and fun for contributors.
Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- We're looking for an Open Source Engineer who combines deep technical leadership with a passion for open-source collaboration.
- Must-Haves:
- Strong understanding of backend systems, APIs, and distributed architectures.
- Ability to make and communicate architectural and technical decisions.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
- A community-first mindset and belief in open development.
- Nice-to-Haves:
- Vertrautheit mit Netzwerktechnik, Sicherheit oder Zero Trust-Architekturen.
- Public GitHub profile with meaningful contributions.
Experience
- 3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, with strong full-stack capabilities.
- Experience building, maintaining, or leading open-source projects.
- Proven experience leading technical initiatives.
- Experience with frontend technologies and developer-facing UIs.
- Experience with Go, TypeScript, React, or similar modern stacks.
- Strong experience with unit and integration testing principles.
- Experience managing roadmaps and technical direction.
- Experience in growing developer communities.
What we offer
- We want you to do meaningful work and be proud of what you build.
- That's why we offer:
- Competitive compensation with salary and equity.
- Hybrid work model between our Berlin office and remote.
- High-impact role shaping both product and community.
- Real technical ownership of a global open-source platform.
- Direct influence on NetBird's architecture and roadmap.
- A strong engineering culture built around transparency and collaboration.
- Karriereentwicklung, da NetBird zu einem führenden Open-Source-Sicherheitsunternehmen wird.
Topics you will work on
Job locations
About your employer
NetBird GmbH is a software company based in Berlin that focuses on innovative network security. Their platform provides a user-friendly solution that replaces traditional VPN methods with WireGuard and peer-to-peer technology. The company targets teams of all sizes with the aim of making secure private networks simpler and more accessible.
- Startup
- Onsite, Hybrid
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
More jobs
These jobs might also interest you
Operation, monitoring, and further development of the network infrastructure. Administration and configuration of firewalls, routers, and switches. Ensuring network availability, performance, and security. Participation in IT security concepts and...
Area of responsibility “DRV Bund IT” is the service provider for Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund, developing and operating a complex IT system landscape in close coordination with its customers. Our “IT4IT” domain provides IT departments across DRV...
Hello, let's say WE! We - the HUK-COBURG Insurance Group - are among the top 10 in Germany. Founded over 90 years ago, we are now the leading insurer for private households with over 13 million customers and the largest German auto insurer. Our...